WEIRD RECORD
Irrelevant covers of campy pop hits are nothing new. Just ask anyone from Killdozer
to Weird Al Yankovic. But irrelevant covers of campy pop hits performed by a 10-man,
Teutonic noseflute orchestra? That's entertainment! Armed with a splendid
moniker that puns the name of a famous Bavarian brass band while combining the
German compound words for "grindcore" and "grinds choir", Das Original Oberkreuzberger
Nasenflötenorchester: Der Grindchor is not just a mouthful, it's a heretofore
unsurpassed pinnacle of lowbrow audio innovation. This gleefully annoying cast
of snoutflautists, among them Hanns Martin Slayer, Snotty y Green and Dieter Kölsch,
literally blows its brains out, wheezing and whistling through parodistically
retitled but melodically faithful renditions of "Eloise", "Je t'aime", "Bohemian
Rhapsody" and "Over the Rainbow." The whimsical mania of the ensemble's septum-severing
Kuschelrotz (Human Wreckords) will enchant children of all ages; the 10-inch
EP's sleeve art, which elucidates the links between ornithology and sexual perversion,
will not.
Jordan N. Mamone, CMJ New Music, august 2000
